LiveScience has a post about Netflix's "Life on Our Planet". It's a nature show narrated by Morgan Freeman. They take a look at the history of life on planet Earth with clips of current animals and plants. The show became available in late October 2023. It has stunning graphics and special effects. There's a great clip of Arthropleura over on Youtube.
A remarkable reconstruction shows a 300 million-year-old millipede the length of a small car crawling around a forest floor looking for love.
The footage was created for Netflix's "Life on Our Planet" — a series that brings extinct creatures back to virtual life in video footage. The clip shows Arthropleura, which at 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) long and 1.6 feet (0.5 m) wide was the biggest millipede to ever live. It likely weighed about 110 pounds (50 kilograms).
Scientists first discovered Arthropleura fossils 170 years ago. They lived in what is now the U.K., continental Europe and North America during the Carboniferous Period (359 million to 299 million years ago). In 2018, a chance discovery of an enormous, near-complete specimen provided a new, detailed look at the creature's anatomy — which the team behind "Life on Our Planet" used to help them reconstruct this ancient creature.
Arthropleura
